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Assembly Bill A5719

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the placement of homeless shelters

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2025-A5719 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6632
Current Committee:
Assembly Cities
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Add §21-124.2, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6685
2021-2022: S1912
2023-2024: A6296, S332

2025-A5719 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the city of New York to consult with the community board of the district and all local elected officials where a proposed homeless shelter or use of commercial hotel space to shelter homeless individuals shall be located, at least three hundred sixty-five days beforehand.

2025-A5719 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5719
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Cities
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation to the placement of homeless shelters
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is  amended
 by adding a new section 21-124.2 to read as follows:
   §  21-124.2  PLACEMENT  OF  HOMELESS SHELTERS.   A. THE CITY SHALL NOT
 PROPOSE THE LOCATION OF A HOMELESS SHELTER OR ESTABLISH A HOMELESS SHEL-
 TER WITHOUT CONSULTING WITH THE COMMUNITY BOARD OF THE DISTRICT AND  ALL
 LOCAL  ELECTED  OFFICIALS  OF  THE DISTRICT WHERE SUCH PROPOSED HOMELESS
 SHELTER SHALL BE LOCATED AT LEAST THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE DAYS  BEFORE-
 HAND.
   B.  THE CITY SHALL NOT PLAN TO USE OVER THIRTY PERCENT OF THE ROOMS IN
 A COMMERCIAL HOTEL, OR PAY FOR OVER TWENTY PERCENT OF  THE  ROOMS  IN  A
 COMMERCIAL  HOTEL,  OR  RESERVE ALL THE ROOMS ON A FLOOR IN A COMMERCIAL
 HOTEL FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING SHELTER FOR HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS,  OR
 CHANGE  THE  USE  OF  AN  EXISTING  SHELTER, WITHOUT CONSULTING WITH THE
 COMMUNITY BOARD OF THE DISTRICT AND ALL LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS  OF  THE
 DISTRICT  WHERE  SUCH COMMERCIAL HOTEL IS LOCATED AT LEAST THREE HUNDRED
 SIXTY-FIVE DAYS BEFOREHAND.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09795-01-5

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